Rain Partier

Fantomex is a superb marksman and has been seen using special "mutant-killing" bullets. They were designed by Sir James Braddock (the father of Psylocke and Captain Britain) and are unique because the bullets themselves appear to have distorted faces. He carries a variety of guns and other weapons.

I don't recall when this was revealed, but there's clearly a connection with the Braddocks.. so extending that to Otherworld isn't a big leap.

Rain Partier

Fantomex is a superb marksman and has been seen using special "mutant-killing" bullets. They were designed by Sir James Braddock (the father of Psylocke and Captain Britain) and are unique because the bullets themselves appear to have distorted faces. He carries a variety of guns and other weapons.

I don't recall when this was revealed, but there's clearly a connection with the Braddocks.. so extending that to Otherworld isn't a big leap.

Rain Partier

Rebis wrote:That's a fairly bizarre connection given Fantomex's origins in The World and Cap't Britain's revelation about Fantomex not existing in any other dimension and his condemnation of him for that.

That's Marvel's wiki though, or just in general wikipedia? I ask because the latter isn't always totally reliable for comics info.

The latter, and there's no source link. And I'm pretty well-versed in Fantomex info.. I love the character. But I don't recall reading about any of that prior to the wiki. So yeah..

Rain Partier

Rebis wrote:That's a fairly bizarre connection given Fantomex's origins in The World and Cap't Britain's revelation about Fantomex not existing in any other dimension and his condemnation of him for that.

That's Marvel's wiki though, or just in general wikipedia? I ask because the latter isn't always totally reliable for comics info.

The latter, and there's no source link. And I'm pretty well-versed in Fantomex info.. I love the character. But I don't recall reading about any of that prior to the wiki. So yeah..

OMCTO

First off, the art was hideous. Not to my taste, to be sure, but also unclear and muddy in some panels to the point of being painful to decipher. Even Dean White's colors weren't up to his usual standard here, it looked like a rushed job, or maybe he just felt he had to approach the new artist's work differently. Either way, it was not great.

I felt the internal reasoning of the magic squad kidnapping Psylocke and sentencing Fantomex to death made no sense at all, in one sentence they speak of the evil of Apocalypse in dozens of realities and in the next they seem to downplay the threat as perceived by Fantomex. The abbreviated "trial" scene was just plain silly, and made me think the Captain Britain folks are either vastly incompetent or under some other's control.

When you add in magic and wizards and giant troll creatures that seem to be the type of threat the Otherworld overlords should have no trouble handling but they can't, and this may be a good jumping off point for me, at least for a little while.

First off, the art was hideous. Not to my taste, to be sure, but also unclear and muddy in some panels to the point of being painful to decipher. Even Dean White's colors weren't up to his usual standard here, it looked like a rushed job, or maybe he just felt he had to approach the new artist's work differently. Either way, it was not great.

I felt the internal reasoning of the magic squad kidnapping Psylocke and sentencing Fantomex to death made no sense at all, in one sentence they speak of the evil of Apocalypse in dozens of realities and in the next they seem to downplay the threat as perceived by Fantomex. The abbreviated "trial" scene was just plain silly, and made me think the Captain Britain folks are either vastly incompetent or under some other's control.

When you add in magic and wizards and giant troll creatures that seem to be the type of threat the Otherworld overlords should have no trouble handling but they can't, and this may be a good jumping off point for me, at least for a little while.

Rain Partier

Marvel seems to have the same info about him, so I guess chances are it's legit. Maybe it was revealed during his time under the heading Nation X:

Nation X

Fantomex hunts down a Predator X.Added by PeteparkerNext encountering the X-Men after being hired by a young mutant boy to kill a Predator X, Fantomex is crucial in helping to subdue the New U-Men until they released a mutant fighting influenza HX-N1, forcing the X-Men to flee. Fantomex is later seen wooing Psylocke.

There's more appearances for him between New X-Men and Uncanny X-Force than I realized.

Rain Partier

Marvel seems to have the same info about him, so I guess chances are it's legit. Maybe it was revealed during his time under the heading Nation X:

Nation X

Fantomex hunts down a Predator X.Added by PeteparkerNext encountering the X-Men after being hired by a young mutant boy to kill a Predator X, Fantomex is crucial in helping to subdue the New U-Men until they released a mutant fighting influenza HX-N1, forcing the X-Men to flee. Fantomex is later seen wooing Psylocke.

There's more appearances for him between New X-Men and Uncanny X-Force than I realized.

Rain Partier

Next time I'm digging through my shortboxes to look for stuff to sell or trade, I'm going to pull my singles of Morrison's New X-Men and re-read them in sequence for fun. It's been years since I read them. I had a full run of Weapon X too, but I sold that for crazy money on eBay a couple years ago.

Rain Partier

Next time I'm digging through my shortboxes to look for stuff to sell or trade, I'm going to pull my singles of Morrison's New X-Men and re-read them in sequence for fun. It's been years since I read them. I had a full run of Weapon X too, but I sold that for crazy money on eBay a couple years ago.

Rain Partier

e_galston wrote:what i don't understand about Betsy/Brian's dad making "mutant killing bullets" has he ever been shown as "hating mutants"

I guess his origins, having been germinated as a weapon using sentinel technology (that's never been really expanded on), and his desire to transcend his origins and designated purpose. I don't know why Sir James B would be wanting to kill mutants, but he could have been involved in the Weapon Plus program somehow.

I read where someone elsewhere was questioning this same tidbit of info on Fantomex and said he thought it might be related to old Excalibur issues by Ellis where Sir James B developed weapons later used on Genosha? I don't know anything about that personally, but they were speculating that Remender meant to connect his story to that.

Hopefully we will learn more about Fantomex in upcoming issues shortly, as each character is said to get their arc and this one is Fantomex's presumably. I know RR mentioned recently in an interview that one of Fantomex's 3 brains is dead now and it will be explored how that will affect "Charlie Cluster 7".

Rain Partier

e_galston wrote:what i don't understand about Betsy/Brian's dad making "mutant killing bullets" has he ever been shown as "hating mutants"

I guess his origins, having been germinated as a weapon using sentinel technology (that's never been really expanded on), and his desire to transcend his origins and designated purpose. I don't know why Sir James B would be wanting to kill mutants, but he could have been involved in the Weapon Plus program somehow.

I read where someone elsewhere was questioning this same tidbit of info on Fantomex and said he thought it might be related to old Excalibur issues by Ellis where Sir James B developed weapons later used on Genosha? I don't know anything about that personally, but they were speculating that Remender meant to connect his story to that.

Hopefully we will learn more about Fantomex in upcoming issues shortly, as each character is said to get their arc and this one is Fantomex's presumably. I know RR mentioned recently in an interview that one of Fantomex's 3 brains is dead now and it will be explored how that will affect "Charlie Cluster 7".

Rain Partier

Rebis wrote:Next time I'm digging through my shortboxes to look for stuff to sell or trade, I'm going to pull my singles of Morrison's New X-Men and re-read them in sequence for fun. It's been years since I read them. I had a full run of Weapon X too, but I sold that for crazy money on eBay a couple years ago.

I have the New X-Men Omnibus.

I love it. Except the binding is shitty. So much gutter loss. Makes me want to get the new printing in the fall.

Rain Partier

Rebis wrote:Next time I'm digging through my shortboxes to look for stuff to sell or trade, I'm going to pull my singles of Morrison's New X-Men and re-read them in sequence for fun. It's been years since I read them. I had a full run of Weapon X too, but I sold that for crazy money on eBay a couple years ago.

I have the New X-Men Omnibus.

I love it. Except the binding is shitty. So much gutter loss. Makes me want to get the new printing in the fall.